The Shadow List Reviewed By Fran Lewis for Bookpleasures.com

Fran Lewis

Reviewer Fran Lewis:
Fran worked in the NYC Public Schools as the Reading and Writing
Staff Developer for over 36 years. She has three masters degrees and
a PD in Supervision and Administration. Currently. She is a member of
Who's Who of America's Teachersand Who's
Who of America's Executivesfrom Cambridge. In addition,
she is the author of three children's books and a fourth Alzheimer’s
book is Memories are Precious: Alzheimer’s Journey: Ruth’s story
in honor of her mom. Fran
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Free money wouldn’t we a
love if someone emailed us and said that we are entitled to some
money from an estate of a person who we never met. Scams like this
are not uncommon and receiving an email that says you inherited money
from someone you know you never met or is no relation to you,
should send up a red warning flag to delete sending it to cyber
heaven. Jason Saunders is in debt up to his eyeballs from some deals
that went sour for his company and gambling debts that set him back
quite a bit of money. So when he receives an email for some free
money and not just thousands, millions, he takes the bait and winds
up getting off the plane and kidnapped but by who and why? Judd and
Jessica Ryker have an unusual marriage comprised of what she calls
“rules of engagement,” that they both have to follow when dealing
with their specific jobs. Her job is head of a covert unit at the CIA
called Purple Cell and his is a SCRU or Crisis Recovery Unit each
with their own specific specialties. Judd is working on something
specific when asked to drop everything to find Jason Sanders but who
has him and exactly where is this young man and why doesn’t he
think it's an important assignment? Forced to take on this job by an
influential congressman pressing his own boss he has no choice to
enlist some help. Jessica called the Bear who is a Russian mobster
aka monster who is working out of St. Petersburg but whose network
and criminal organization is worldwide claiming to handle and sell
toilet paper and vodka to heron and prostitutes.

Someone is targeting high
profile people and the fact that Jason Saunders is missing seems to
be taking a back seat to Nigerian basketball player on the Brooklyn
Nets, Tunde Babatunde, who has been kidnapped and offers money to his
captors but they want much more. Attacks on the oil platform off the
Nigerian coast by pirates and no one lives to tell it. But, someone
has to pose as the dangerous contract killer Queen Sheba and who
better than Jessica Ryker for the job. Heading for Russian while Judd
heads for Nigeria she has to bring down the Bear. Told she has no
choice but to meet with the Bear and lure him into the web our
government has set, will she survive and come home to her family
while Judd is on a mission there too to get the basketball player
back.

Funke Kanju an Internet
television star and for some reason she is expendable too and
one whatever short or long list that has been created she is targeted
why?

Things take on a huge
spiral turn when Judd asks for someone’s help in order to complete
his mission but first he requests from his superior to make sure that
Judge Bola Akinola is protected and that nothing happens to him who
has received some serious threats and Langton Parker, Judd’s
superior is asked to make sure that he is protected even if it means
talking to the Nigerian Ambassador and asking for a favor. Even
though he’s supposed to concentrate on finding the basketball
player he moves in a different direction while Jessica is in Russia
hoping to foil the Bear. From Langley to Lagos to Saint Petersburg
and Nigeria the tension is high as the oil industry is at stake with
barrels stolen and Judd having to table the crisis in the South China
Sea for a missing person or two. As the crisis manager he has no
choice put to comply but he’s doing it his way. Meeting with
Akinola was enlighten to both Isabella and Judd but why did he claim
that he could get the basketball player back without a ransom.
Putting him in contact with a man who calls him Coyote he learned
about the 419 scams and how the operation runs. Jessica manages to
meet with the Bear and take down some of his men the scene was
priceless and the end result lets you know she is not one to fool
with ever.

How many fall for the
promise of a huge cash payout and receive these bogus emails and
answer them? Added in the judge is now in hiding because he is being
accused of misappropriating certain funds but is that for real too?
Yet, there is still no sign of Jason Saunders and no one knows where
he is being held.

Here is where the two
cases intersect when Jessica’s main operative Sunday finds
information on the judge and realizes that he is looking into her
target for Judd. With Sunday explaining about the Nigeria flare
up and that oil producing region was a maze of swamps and creeks
which is a hot spot for armed groups and the Niger Delta militants
gained their own spotlight after they began sabotaging pipelines and
kidnapping workers. But, who is behind all of this?

When certain hidden truths
come out about the emails and Coyote, Judd learns from someone close
to him who the big boss named Oga is and that is a game changer all
around. Is Bola Akinola really into corruption and was is arrest
justified? Who else is on the target of shadow list? Where is Jason
Saunders and what is his connection to the hedge fund and the man
behind the 419 emails and what about the owner of the Brooklyn Nets
and his connection to someone high up in government and Harvey
Holden? An ending that will leave you wondering what is the fate of
both Jessica and Judd as the author brilliantly leaves the reader
hanging wondering when their two phones ring what their fate will be.